Heavy lifting with McSema 2.0

Published

2018-01-23 12:50

Collected

2026-07-03 05:20

---
id: 2054
title: "Heavy lifting with McSema 2.0"
source_domain: blog.trailofbits.com
source_url: "https://blog.trailofbits.com/2018/01/23/heavy-lifting-with-mcsema-2-0/"
published_at: "2018-01-23T12:50:03Z"
tags: ["tool-release", "llvm", "binary-ninja", "binary-translation", "mcsema", "aarch64", "binary-lifting", "remill", "avx"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/2054"
lang: en
---

# Heavy lifting with McSema 2.0

## Summary

McSema 2.0 separates instruction semantics into Remill, adds AArch64 and AVX support, improves control flow recovery, and integrates Binary Ninja, even transpiling AArch64 binaries to x86-64.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** blog.trailofbits.com
- **Published:** 2018-01-23T12:50:03Z
- **Original:** https://blog.trailofbits.com/2018/01/23/heavy-lifting-with-mcsema-2-0/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/2054